Our drive was about as long as I like them to be, 144.4 miles (81,949.1 total). Long enough to see a change in scenery, but not so long that you are worn out (and certainly not long enough to require headlights).
Our first choice park in Sedona, Rancho Sedona RV Park, was full. (They laughed when Joani tried to book only a month in advance and said try a year in advance next time.) Reviews brought us to Krazy K RV Park along I-17 in Camp Verde, AZ. It was about 15 miles from Cottonwood and about 25 miles to downtown Sedona. There were a lot of day trip options in our plans for the next month.
Moving day could have been a lot more complicated if our car had not finally been returned the night before we moved. We did not want to drive the rental to our next campsite and have to return (114 miles) just to pick up our car. It looked pretty good - the paint matched well and the car had been detailed so it looked far better than it had in quite some time.
Early this morning, just before leaving we found the passenger window would not fully open. Joani ran it back to the shop where they found the window was hanging up on the side view mirror wires. It was quickly fixed and we hit the road just 30 minutes later than planned.
There was a lot of uphill climbing as we headed north from Phoenix. A couple of times I was in third gear crawling along with the big rigs at thirty miles per hour. Our home kept its cool and we had no problems. You can see from the picture below, we were no longer in the flat, flat desert.
The snow-capped mountain is probably Humphrey's Peak just north of Flagstaff.
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